CHRISTCHURCH. April 17.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3037, 18 April 1882, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH. April 17.

Early on Sunday morning Martin'a Black Hone Hotel, near the Sunnyaide Aaylum, was burglariously entered and an iron aafo, containing about L3OO and several deqds, waa carried off from a room opening on to £he b,ar. examination of the promises leads to the b,ejief that entpanoe was efjfdoted through * window, and that the bar doop was opened from the imide. The safe must have been taken through the door and there are indioations of ita having been rolled over and over from the door to a cart in which it was carried away. A cart belonging to a farmer natuod James Torranoe, which had been left opposite the hotel on th« previous night, i« now miMinm, and a horfe belonging to Mr Martin'a son-in-law, whioh it if bolioved ir«i uaad ia th* cart, waa ytaterday afternoon found by th« polio* on th« aouth Town Bait,

Over 6000 people visited the Exhibition on Saturday. The total recoipts for the week exceeded those of the first week of tlio Adelaide Exhibition by L 350. At the Resident Magistrate's Court thin morning, Henry Lamb, 11 year< nd, for •ticking up and robbing anotbar boy of 2s, was ordered to bo tent to the Industrial School for four yean. The jurors were to have been elected to-day, but the exhibitors asked for a week's more time, which was granted. A woman of notoriously bad charaotor, named Mary Welsted, was found in the Avon this morning. No marks of violence were perceptible, Sho was noarly ilrownod once before, about four yearn ago. So far as can bo told, the whitefiah in Lake Coleridge have thriven. Several dead one* were found on the beach not lonx as?o 7or 8 inches in length. Forty one thousand trout were distributed by the Society last season. Nine electors wore struck off the Stanmore roll to-day, because they could not be found at their places of residence. Notice of motion has been given in the oty Council to c>mpel all churches, schoolrooms, etc, to bo licensed under the Municipal Act. There was a wonderfully brilliant aurora this evening about 7 o'clock. Tho tints as seeu here were gorgeous, and extended right to the zenith.